Word: maristan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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GLEN HAZARD-Maristan Chapman-Knopf...
...Maristan Chapman" (Wife Mary Ilsley and Husband John Stanton Chapman), before "her" identity was discovered, had already begun to make a name as a writer of mountaineer stories, was regarded by some critics as a competitor if not a rival of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. But barring hillbilly dialect and more pointed characterization than thrillers usually carry, Glen Hazard competes with nothing more literarily ambitious than a detective story...
...small but increasingly respectable group of U. S. historico-pastoral novelists (some of them: Willa Gather, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, T. S. Stribling. ''Maristan" Chapman), Author LeRoy MacLeod is not smallest or least respectable. The Years of Peace, his second novel, is quietly & fully written. Like any well-told story of the past, it seems truer than history...
...Folks talk a heap concerning progress, yet come to look at pictures of it and 'tis a mess." Maristan Chapman's Tennessee mountaineers think and speak throughout in such pithy proverbialisms. Their language is often outlandish?it takes a 62-word glossary to explain words like "bo-dacious," "fere." "hirpling," "survigrous,"' "smooch." These rough diamonds the author matrixes in a poetic style showing traces of T. F. Powys. J. M. Synge and the translators of the Holy Bible...
...Chattanooga, Tenn., and raised in the midst of her material. During the War she worked in England, married Engineer John Stanton Chapman. After the Armistice the Chapmans went back to the Tennessee hills, solved the housing problem by roaming wild for two years in a house-car. When "Maristan Chapman's" first book (The Happy Mountain} appeared, Mary got the credit. Last month their secret came out: "Maristan Chapman" is a combination of Mary and Stanton...